The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

There are a number of people who have said, and I’ve been swayed in this direction, Hey, when you’re 20, 25 years old and you don’t need this money for 30, 40, 50 years, do you really need bonds to offset the volatility of equities? Some crazy number writing a monthly column for them. You can’t execute.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, they’ve put up some really impressive numbers over the past 30 years, which has given them the opportunity to donate tens of millions of dollars to their favorite organizations. 00:01:42 [Speaker Changed] The career plan originally was urban development and transportation. We don’t give exact numbers.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Justice Department has created a team to conduct a threat analysis on the security risks of self-driving cars. The government team’s focus is to secure the Internet of Things (IoT), including self-driving cars, internet-connected devices and medical equipment. Fiat has been proactive in this regard by recalling almost 1.5

Securities

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AUGUST 10, 2020

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported that it served over 800,000 individuals at American airport screening lanes Sunday (Aug. The biggest 20 airlines in the country transported just over 16 million travelers in June, which marked an 80 percent drop compared to June 2019 yet almost two times as many people as May.

Transportation

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The number and the decimal — 2.0 — has evolved into a rough shorthand for the newest version of something. Enter 3-D Secure 2.0. The vision that is in place now, he added, is one where, as aided by 3-D Secure 2.0, “we can enable borderless commerce,” where goods and services should be able to be delivered from anywhere in the world.

Securities

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JULY 24, 2019

Despite IoT’s popularity, however, security a nd privacy issues continue to make headlines. A popular white-label GPS tracker sold by more than a dozen companies was found to have a number of security flaws earlier this year, while a new strain of Mirai malware specifically targeting IoT devices was recently discovered.

Securities

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

Securities

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Municipalities could utilize it for everything from street light control and air quality monitoring to transportation safety. Every network involved must be able to instantly, safely and securely connect and share information, he explained, and Cisco works with city governments to cultivate transparency and speed.

Transportation

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

Underwood said all five companies had mobile apps that had a well-known security vulnerability that enabled hackers to intercept private data including passwords, social security numbers, credit card account numbers and bank account information.

Securities

PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

As individuals were beginning to seek COVID-19 benefits, hackers disrupted Italy’s Social Security internet site, per the leader of the welfare agency. Tridico said he notified authorities about the incident, which has brought into question the security of the country’s online infrastructure as it grapples with the COVID-19 crisis. “In

Securities

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

billion records last year, calling it “the worst year on record” and noting that the number of records exposed was 284 percent higher than in 2018. The information and healthcare sectors suffered the highest number of breaches, the report found. Cisco Uses IoT Security To Build Smart Cities. About The Tracker .

Healthcare

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2018

Here are the numbers: 270 million | Number of bank accounts opened using the Aadhaar payments app, according to analyst estimates, meaning more transacting and banking is being done outside the traditional system. 25 | Number of hours it can take for SMBs to manually prepare and submit paperwork for the business lending process.

Transportation

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Talk of a venture capital plummet continues to grow, particularly in Europe, where new data from Consultancy Europe revealed that the number of venture capital deals for startups across the continent has declined every quarter since Q1 2019. based small business lending platform iwoca, which secured $131.45 earlier this year.

B2B

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MARCH 6, 2020

A 2018 survey found that 50 percent of IT professionals labeled security among the most-pressing issues affecting their API strategies, and API-related services are expected to become those hackers most frequently attack by 2022. . Companies, therefore, must work to identify and track APIs’ use and secure them against key threats.

Securities

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Concerns over security breaches and data privacy remain high, however, so providers will need to be sure users are properly protected from all manners of fraud as this ecosystem grows. IoT devices still have a number of security weaknesses that providers must address as the technology becomes a larger part of consumers’ daily lives.

Transportation

CFO News Room

JANUARY 25, 2023

Newsletter Sign-up The Logistics Report Top news and in-depth analysis on the world of logistics, from supply chain to transport and technology. are securing ocean freight rates that are about one-third less than last year’s contracts, according to container shippers and retail executives. Global trade volumes fell 9.5% West Coast.

Transportation

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

25) that it secured $1 billion in new funds from Japan’s SoftBank and China’s Alibaba affiliate Ant. The exposed information, however, reportedly did not include password data, Social Security numbers or any financial information. In today’s top payments news, India’s mobile payments startup Paytm said on Monday (Nov.

Securities

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The G-7 plans are likely to send oil prices higher (despite US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen claiming the opposite ) and reduce tanker availability, both of which will threaten India’s energy security and hurt its economy as India is the third-largest consumer and importer of oil worldwide. Russia is far from reliable in any realm.

Transportation

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MARCH 23, 2016

Automaker General Motors is using feedback from the public on potential security risks to better understand its vulnerabilities and build up its cybersecurity initiatives. As the technology used to help make vehicles more connected and essentially “smarter,” so have the oncoming threats to the safety and security from cybercriminals.

Securities

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MARCH 27, 2020

The Department Of Homeland Security ( DHS ) is lengthening the enforcement deadline for REAL ID because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a statement. It sought to increase security standards for drivers’ licenses made by the states. The REAL ID launch serves as the last part of an act Congress ratified in 2005 following 9/11.

Transportation

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JUNE 15, 2018

In one example germane to security and payments, ALTR has emerged from four years of stealth, with $15 million in private and institutional backing and what is being billed as the first commercial software package that it says “unleashes the security benefits of blockchain.”.

Securities

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JANUARY 20, 2021

A secure digital vehicle identity sets the foundation for a fully automatic network for usage-based transportation services," MOBI COO and Co-Founder Tram Vo said in the announcement. "We Ford and BMW co-chair the VID II Working Group, which also has the support of a number of companies, including USAA, IBM, Honda, AWS and Accenture.

Nonprofit

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Bowman said Tap to Phone could be “one of the most profound ways to reinvent the physical shopping experience,” noting that the number of sellers already using Visa’s TTP system had grown 200 percent over the past year. Touchless Uptake.

Healthcare

CFO News Room

JANUARY 29, 2023

In discussing his work as a young man in the 1990s in Brazil, Shellenberger writes: I can count on a single hand the number of young people who told me they wanted to remain on their family’s farm and work their parents’ land. The large majority of young people wanted to go to the city, get an education, and get a job.

Marketing

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JULY 21, 2020

We were excited about reopening hotels … but sadly we are in states that are spiking so the numbers that we were starting to feel good about are reversing. In related news, the number of travelers passing through airport security checkpoints across the U.S. It’s a challenge,” he said. “We A total of 4.6

Transportation

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Duncan Burgess’ “number one passion” in his role is people. He then moved to the security construction technology company ICx Technologies as division controller. After a few other job roles, he became UK finance director at taxi transport and technology company Gett in 2018. Beginning his role at Gett.

Finance

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Updated minimum wage legislation in the New York State Senate and Assembly ( S3062D / A7503C ) would secure much-needed wage increases for almost 2.9 an hour and $62,400 at $15 an hour), but still short of real economic security. The greatest number of affected workers would be in NYC (Table 3), where 1.4 We estimate that 78.4%

Education

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APRIL 2, 2019

On the flip side, these sellers don’t have the support and logistics infrastructure to efficiently sell and transport their product[s].” . “Buyers are sourcing raw materials from an array of entities, and many of the products are inconsistent and unreliable. ” Beyond Banking Struggles.

B2B

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JUNE 11, 2020

In a letter to the ridesharing companies , Douglas Ito, director of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), reminded them of the July 1 deadline to secure workers’ compensation coverage for drivers. Last fall, ride-hailing platforms were seen as an employment boon in the transportation sector.

Transportation

Bramasol

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Entitlements can include a wide range of offerings, such as access to a cloud service, number of user licenses, software support, hardware maintenance services, warranties, media access rights, or usage-based consumption rights.

SAP

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MARCH 1, 2020

Health tech startup Accolade , with headquarters in Seattle and Philadelphia, filed with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise $100 million for an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday (Feb. Lead book-running managers for the IPO included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and BofA Securities. 28), according to reports. .

Valuation

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Our activation at Roy Thompson Hall showcases Visa’s leading-edge payment technology, transporting consumers to the future of commerce.”. As the number of Internet of Things-enabled devices grows to 50 billion globally by 2020, payment-enabled devices in a slew of form factors will be in demand, Visa said.

Transportation

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Even though biometrics offer notable security advantages, they do come with risks. The following Deep Dive examines the potential use cases for biometrics in national identification systems and the security pitfalls they could encounter. . A reported 3.6 billion people worldwide will carry digital IDs with embedded biometrics by 2021.

Transportation

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JUNE 7, 2020

passenger numbers reached 391,882 on June 4, the highest since March 22, according to the Transportation Security Administration. Demand for air travel is also showing some early signs of life. But the average daily total over the last week was still 87 percent less than during the same period a year ago, Bloomberg reported.

Transportation

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APRIL 30, 2020

Transportation Department, the technology could be used to help ensure safety and help with identity management. While the fraudsters’ allegation that they’ve tapped into computer webcams are baseless, the FTC says they may include old passwords, gleaned from the breach, to try and come off more convincing. According to a study by the U.S.

Treasury

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

market, which currently stands at number one. In Bengaluru, India’s information technology hub, in April of this year, the local government pushed to stop Uber and Ola operations in the state until drivers secure a special license from the government. Ridesharing in India is expanding quickly.

Transportation

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

7), Certify said 11 percent of all transactions expensed on the Certify platform in 2018 were Uber purchases, with Starbucks coming in at number two with 4.1 This is the third year in a row that Uber has landed at number one, the company said. Looking at Q4 2018 data, Certify found that Uber secured 11.9

Transportation